Leonardo Isaías Villegas Acosta
Born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Leonardo moved to Guadalajara to study film making and digital animation, having as a main goal the cinematographic direction. Lover and practitioner of analysis and opinion.
Irvin Alejandro Cortés Juárez,
Has published essays on cinema and art in digital magazines such as Interferencias, Marabunta and Tierra Adentro. In 2020 and 2020, he participated in a criticism workshop program organized by the International Film Festival of Guanajuato.
Joaquin Colinas Marquez
Filmmaker in training from the National School of Cinematographic Arts from the UNAM. Follower of André Bazin, he believes that every film can redenefine the concept of what filming is and can be.
Andrés Uriel Reyes Gutiérrez
Independent director and producer trained at the National School of Cinematographic Arts (ENAC-UNAM). His projects focus on the portrait of landscapes and spaces used as a basis for the creation of audiovisual atmospheres that express the feelings of the inhabitants of these places. Fantasy, alienation and isolation of his characters, and the dislocation of time are some of the recurring characteristics in his short films. He is currently in the process of developing his degree short film.
Carlos Andrés Torres Cabrera.
He studied Dramatic Literature and Theatre. He has published essays in the magazines "Este País", "Icónica", "Correspondencias" and in "La Gaceta" of the Fondo de Cultura Económica. He was selected for the Guadalajara Talent Press in 2021.
Eugenia Ruiz Sánchez
Graduated from the Film School at Arte7 and founder of the production company Guerrillera Films. Her most recent works are: as a producer "Biopsia" (Dir. Adriana López) that has been part of laboratories such as DOCULAB or FEMCINE and her debut documentary as co-director "An angel changes your life", has been part of PLATAFORMA MX .
Jean Jaubert
He began his project in photography at the age of 17. He studied film, philosophy and sound in a semi-self-taught way. His work seeks the integration of theory and philosophical thought in transdisciplinary and experimental poetic audiovisual proposals.
Katy Marie Montoya
He is making his third documentary and his first short fiction. She has worked as assistant director and producer. She studied anthropology and gave talks on Syrian cinema at the Universidad de la Comunicación and the Panamericana.
Jorge Daniel Carmona Colín
He studied the technical option "Assistant Photographer, Laboratorian and Press Technician". He participated in exhibitions as part of said technical option. He studied Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences from 2016 to 2017, before entering ENAC. Since 2018 he has studied at the National School of Cinematographic Arts (ENAC), where he has carried out various exercises as a director, cinematographer and color corrector. He is currently developing the thesis projects with which he will graduate from ENAC.
Said Fernando Chávez Arvizu
19-year-old student in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences from UNAM. He has made several short films independently with the help of friends, which have been part of various festivals and contests.
Arianna Escorcia
I am 23 years old, I am from Colombia, but I came to Mexico when I was 6 years old. Cinema is my second career, although if I want to finish art history, the visual arts have always caught my attention, since I was 13 years old I wanted to take photos; start with digital, and like many analog photography is born from a curiosity about something from the past or someone and becomes more part of your day to day.
Ximena López
I am a Film student at the University of Communication and before that I studied a semester of Communication Sciences at UNAM. I am one of the founders of Cine Lakam, a small and independent production company that seeks to bring together people who are passionate about cinema and help them grow and polish their skills. I did direction in one of the Faro Aragón rallies, cinematography in a short film for 48 hrs and I have participated in other projects in the direction, art and production departments.
Gerardo Arriaga
I am 20 years old, I was born in Mexico City, I studied in some script, directing and editing courses. My taste for cinema begins when I was a child, with animated films, science fiction and later fantasy films.
What I enjoy most about movies today is the power they have to convey emotions, how a story can reach a person so much that they change it or identify with it, I really enjoy analyzing how movies are made, but I also how they are structured, and currently in the degree I really like that I can discover a type of stories that I was not used to before and meet directors that I did not know before.
Ignacio Álvarez
Since I was a child I discovered my attraction to the arts and creative expression, which is why I ventured into various theater courses during elementary school. In addition to playing the piano and being very fond of music. What attracted me to cinema is the ability to tell stories in a thousand ways and using hundreds of elements at the same time. I have always felt that everything attracts me and I am constantly acquiring new interests. When I finally started film school I felt a clarity that I had never felt before; I found something that I enjoy very much and also allows me to amalgamate any external interests that I have.
Pablo Herrera
I am a young movie buff who found great pleasure in the arts since I was a child, because my mother, who is an artist, instilled in me an education based on the arts and humanity. Over time I acquired a special taste for dramatic writing. But it was in secondary education when a particular interest in cinema was born, I suppose that all those who have enjoyed cinema are interested in cinema. Of course I always had other interests, the music of the sixties and seventies and videogames, anything but racing, we found those very funny, but among all the tastes there was one that for some reason I wanted to live.
Ofelia Ladrón de Guevara
Writer and film critic. She studied anthropology at UNAM. Her texts have been published in Punto de Partida and Punto en Línea of UNAM, La Guarida, Correspondencias and GIFF. Talent Press Guadalajara 2022. She has participated in the GIFF critics' room, as well as in the workshop. Collaborates in the editorial team of Iconic magazine." As a narrator, I see cinema as an otherness, because, despite the fact that it tells stories just like literature, it uses resources that are foreign to narrative. For this reason, I began to write about the films that I saw and liked, as a way of approaching and experiencing this estrangement."
Ian García Varona
Familiar with the cinema of directors such as Taboada, Coppola, Scorsese and Ismael Rodríguez among others, my cinephilia began when I obsessively watched all kinds of cinema, from the most blatantly commercial to the most independent, from the most conventional to the most avant-garde. I also studied cinema and have been the director, screenwriter and editor of half a dozen independent short films that have been selected at festivals around the world. I also directed, wrote and co-edited my feature debut “Recuerdos de Nuestro Infierno” currently in post-production. Outside of filmmaking, I'm an occasional writer of short stories, poetry, film reviews, and a budding novelist
Kayla Fragman
Kayla Fragman is a documentary filmmaker based in Tiohtià:ke, Montreal. Themes of filiation, memory and immigration are at the core of their artistic practice. Kayla is currently in research for her first feature-length documentary, Fios de Terra.
Audrey Rainville
Audrey Rainville is a young artist from Montreal, Canada who graduated in 2021 from Concordia University. She was Awarded best Canadian student film at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montréal for her thesis film Roots Home (2021). Her interest lies mainly in the recounting of stories and spreading awareness to realities that differs from the mains. She approaches documentary work through a sensitive and poetic approach, incorporating enigmatic visual stories and touching interview content. Through her animated work she strives to weave an enhanced expression of the subjects and collaborators identity. Her focus on textiles anchor those stories in a reality that is sheltered from the outter world and where the viewer is invited to discover this reality alongside her.
Rodrigo Urbina
Student of the Superior School of Cinema; occasional film critic, editor and recurring sound designer. Winner of the VIII "Phosforo" Cinematographic Criticism Contest within the framework of FICUNAM 2018. Defender of good bad taste, obsessive about film data. If the occasion arises, a timely conversationalist of cinema and content of various caliber.
Carla Piffaretti
Filmmaker currently living in Mexico City.
After obtaining her Bachelor of Practical Film in London, Carla became an independent filmmaker. As a result, she gained professional experience as an assistant camera, cinematographer, script supervisor, and third assistant director on several feature and short films. She is a deeply passionate filmmaker with a thirst to grow as a storyteller and to continue to discover the beautiful world of cinema.